Betty Gallow Wonder was born July 17, 1939, in Denver, Colorado. A life-long resident of the Elyria neighborhood, she was the only child of working parents. She and many extended family members grew up and remained in the area. Betty spent most...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Exterior photograph of the courtyard at the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School...

Photograph looking out of the glass door and window of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The...

Photograph of the lobby and main entrance of the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament...

Photograph of the lobby to the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The Armament School was the only...

Photograph of the United States Air Force insignia in the floor of the lobby to the Photography and Armament School building located in Denver, Colorado. The 1942 Armament and Photography School Buildings are located on the grounds of the former...

View of two images depicting first fire, April 26, 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; top image depicts flames and smoke moving towards Bennett Avenue; large crowds are on boardwalk and horse-drawn wagons and enclosed commercial wagons are on street;...

Fred McPeck was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1927. In 1943, he started work building airplane engines for the war effort. Three years later, he joined United States Marine Corps, and was stationed at Camp Lajeune North Carolina, Bermuda, Cuba,...

Roberta Lee Waggoner was born at home in 1933. A native of the Swansea neighborhood in Denver, she attended old Swansea Elementary School. Her father was an employee with a local packing company. Her mother suffered from health problems and...

Margaret Escamilla was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1954. One of nine children, she was raised in a military family and lived in several countries. After she married her husband in 1971, she moved to the Globeville neighborhood of Denver,...

Jenny Santos was born in Los Angeles, California in 1979. Jenny and her family moved to Denver in the 1980’s. After living in different neighborhoods in Denver, the family finally settled in Globeville when she was 12 years old. As of November...

Studio portrait of Mary, Josephine and Caspar Collins (later an Army Lieutenant for whom Casper, Wyoming is named.) The girls wear their hair parted in the center and pulled loosely back, and pinafores or tunics over dresses. The younger girl sits...

In this standing protrait of Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Douglass, she wears a long dark skirt and a long-sleeved blouse with a pin on her collar. He wears a striped shirt, bow tie, and trousers with a leather belt and a waist watch chain. They stand in...

The Salvation Army's barracks on the east corner of 14th (Fourteenth) and Lawrence, Denver, Colorado, once housed the Lawrence Street Methodist Church. Brick church built in 1865 with a front gable, square entry tower and flanked by square corner...

Three men and a horse pose in front of one of the only buildings ever built in Franklin (Summit County), Colorado. Most of the building is obscured by pine trees, but the gable and open front porch are visible. Records do not exist for why the town...

Several buildings are in the midground near a group of tall pine trees in Chattanooga at the base of Red Mountain north of Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado. Small log cabins are in the foreground and the left midground on the outskirts of the...

The 1910 Baggage-Express Car provided baggage and express freight service as part of scheduled passenger train service. The car is the only known surviving car of the 700-series and the only baggage-express car built specifically for the Rio Grande...

The 1910 Baggage-Express Car provided baggage and express freight service as part of scheduled passenger train service. The car is the only known surviving car of the 700-series and the only baggage-express car built specifically for the Rio Grande...

Exterior photograph of the entrance to the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

The 1910 Baggage-Express Car provided baggage and express freight service as part of scheduled passenger train service. The car is the only known surviving car of the 700-series and the only baggage-express car built specifically for the Rio Grande...

Exterior photograph of the bell tower of the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

Photograph of the interior of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Baggage-Express Car No. 732. The 1910 Baggage-Express Car provided baggage and express freight service as part of scheduled passenger train service. The car is the only known...

Interior photograph of the altar and nave in the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

Interior photograph of the organ in the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

Interior photograph of the bell Carillon in the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

Interior photograph of the bell Carillon in the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

An unidentified nun stands outside of the main entrance to the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the...

Exterior photograph of the entrance to the Chapel at St. Elizabeth's Retreat located in Denver, Colorado. The chapel was originally part of the Oakes Home for Consumptives founded by Rev. Frederick W. Oakes who served as the first and only...

View of the grave stones and the enclosed monument at the Little Big Horn Battlefield in Montana. Script on front of mat board reads: "The battle was fought June 25th, 1876. The cross marks the place General Custer fell. This battle was fought on...

The Union Pacific train depot in Eaton, Weld County, Colorado, has a pagoda roof, and was one of the only examples of its type in northern Colorado. The building is a one-story brick building with a sign reading "Eaton," and tracks in front. A...

Five views of the Methodist parsonages in Altman, Colorado, include; upper left corner image: the first parsonage located between Altman and Independence. A small lean-to shack with an open entry door and a four pane window. Upper right image: a...